Oakes, CLC Clarence Pastoral District and party of special constables.

Motive

Reprisal

Type Of Motive

Weapons Used

Firearms, muskets, blades, cutlasses

Notes

Narrative

In response to theft from Ramornie station, CLC Oakes of Clarence PD swore in stockmen as special constables to surround a Bundjalung (Ngarabal? speakers) camp at night and at daybreak charged and killed indiscriminately Aboriginal men, women and children. The massacre was in reprisal for alleged theft of stock. A man named Lynch was later charged with the offence.

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